A Letter from Ron Paul…
June 13th, 2008
Over the past 17 months you and I delivered a message of freedom, the likes of which American politics has not seen in decades. With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign has come to an end. But the Revolution has only begun.
Today I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty. Please visit our new website and join us: Campaignforliberty.com
Over the next few months I will be developing a program, assembling a team, and announcing new and exciting projects. We will have a permanent presence on the American political landscape. That I promise you.
Right now, I need your patience and support. I want the Campaign for Liberty to be a grassroots campaign; so your energy, your creativity, your feedback, and your participation are essential.
Together, we will educate our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets. We will write commentaries and broadcast videos on the news of the day. And I’ll work with friends whom I respect to design materials for homeschoolers.
Politically, we will expand the great work of our precinct leader program. We will make our presence felt at every level of government. We will keep an eye on Congress, and lobby against legislation that threatens us. And we will identify and support candidates who champion our great ideas.
“In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”
Our time has come to act on these words.
May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to their politicians, the opinion-makers, and the establishment, and saved their country.
Ron Paul
June 13th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
It is disappointing that Dr. Paul is pulling out of the race as a contender.
Rep. Paul could galvanize his Republican base and in doing influence both the McCain and Obama campaigns by starting an organization for Republicans Against the War on Drugs.
There was a conservative Republican visiting my blog today feeling bad that there was no place within the political system to express his contempt, AS A REPUBLICAN, for the war on drugs.
The single minded pro-drug war duopoly of the GOP and Democrats needs to see the combined breadth of drug war opposition within the national political scene. Libertarians. Greens. Nader independents and other Independents. Ron Paul Republicans. Individually these are each 1-3% groups. I would bet that, combined, they are greater than the winning margin in the 2004 election.
Good luck and keep on kickin ass!